The recyclable-fuel storage center being built by Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the Japan Atomic Power Co. and expected to open in October 2014 near Rokkasho, Japan, can store up to 5,000 tons of spent fuel. Koji Sasahara/AP Mayor Kenji Furukawa speaking in his Rokkasho, Japan, office says his village of 11,000 people cannot do without the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant because the plant, its affiliates and related businesses provide most of the jobs. Koji Sasahara/AP ROKKASHO, Japan -- How is an atomic-powered island nation riddled with fault lines supposed to handle its nuclear waste? Part of the answer was supposed to come from this windswept village along Japan's northern coast. By hosting a high-tech facility that would convert spent fuel into a plutonium-uranium mix designed for the next generation of reactors, Rokkasho was supposed to provide fuel while minimi...